The beginning of US airstrikes against Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital in Syria, has sparked a major civilian exodus out of the city, with locals reporting people began fleeing to the countryside at dawn to try to escape more strikes.
Civilians had been fleeing from Raqqa since Obama announced the intention to attack two weeks ago, and the number picked up dramatically after the attacks began.
Locals inside Raqqa reported that not many civilian buildings had been hit “yet” in the US attacks, though given the limited intelligence on the ground, as fewer obvious targets become available, many expect that to change.
The civilian toll of the Raqqa strikes has yet to be reported, with only the 70 ISIS fighters confirmed kill. In Aleppo, where the strikes targeted Khorasan, eight civilians were confirmed slain, including three children.
The Americans are using the Israeli tactical manual…bomb the cities, force the people to flee, bomb the cities again claiming that the "enemy" are now hiding amongst the civilians, using them as shields. I'm curious how they can "confirm" the number ISIS and Khorasan fighters were slain but don't have a clue about civilian casualties, which of course there were. Reminds me of the " dartboard body counts" used in Vietnam to make it look like the military is "making progress."
The USG and their allies, including Turkish Erdogan government doing everything to clean the area from Kurdish people where they cannot demand for their states, like Palestinians they are either butchered by Israel/Erdogan regime/ISIS or they ar in refugee camps across Turkey for years to come. This is the Neo fascism auschwitz camps created by Barack Hussein Obama/Saudis/UAE/Qatar/EU and English governments to redrew the middle east map.
Turkish Erdogan government have announced it's willingness to cooperate with USG bombing campaign against ISIS, only if the idea in regime change in Syria is on the table. In another word, Erdogan government wants to become the new middle east empire by replacing its forces with ISIS in northern Syria, now that they have managed to clean the area of Kurdish people there is not much stoping Erdogan regime conquering northern part of syrian territory, which is the idea in redrawing the Middle East map.
As Israel gradually has done to palestinians land.